The article, with the editor’s note and no pictures, remains on Kotaku. Readers are understandably uncomfortable about these kinds of depictions of characters who are often depicted as or thought of as teenagers. While the intent of this article was to provide a snapshot of the kind of gaming and geek porn that’s out there now, it’s clear in retrospect that, in terms of the images and the analysis you expect from us, we made a mistake. This story, part of our regular coverage of the intersection of sex and games, originally included screenshots from several porn parodies with a note that they were Not Safe For Work. Stephen Totilo, Editor-in-Chief wrote in an editor’s note: On September 24, 2019, at 5:25 pm, roughly three and a half hours after the story was released, all pictures were deleted from the article. Kotaku quickly responded to the backlash. However, some seemed to believe that the situation was being blown out of proportion, as the images were of animated characters, not real people. You hit us with a depiction of underage sex in more than two cases right off the bat (arguable for the LoZ characters not arguable with the HP or Pokemon characters) and the payoff for that immediate, even if it’s tagged as NSFW, punch in the face is….what, exactly? Others still found the written content objectionable, with one user, afriendtosell, commenting: in the source material, underage, such as Ash from Pokémon and Hermione and Draco from Harry Potter. Many quickly criticized showing the images, which included characters who are. When the article was first released, it received backlash due to the explicit computer-rendered images from the videos included with the article. She goes on to graphically describe graphic content from the videos of characters from Harry Potter, The Legend of Zelda, and Pokémon. In the article, Gray describes how she and a friend set out to watch bad computer-rendered videos of fictional characters engaging in acts that would never be described or even imagined in the source material. The story in question, “Animated Video Game Porn Could Be A Lot Sexier And Less Gross,” was uploaded to Kotaku on September 24, 2019, and appears to be the last article Gray published on the site. However, some fans on Twitter are expressing outrage after discovering that Goodbye Volcano High’s narrative director and writer, Kate Gray, used to write about porn and sex in video games on video game website Kotaku and in one article had included NSFW images depicting underage characters. ![]() Many people, including myself, were excited by the announcement, as the game features a non-binary protagonist, Fang (voiced by Lachlan Watson) and promises a story full of LGBT representation, with studio director Salemm Dabbous tweeting, “This game is queer as ” following the reveal. Goodbye Volcano High, a narrative-based adventure game from KO_OP, was announced during Sony’s Future of Gaming event on June 11. ![]() ![]() This article contains content that may be disturbing for some audiences.
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